@MattIlich The “whataboutism” responses are just insane. That country is too far gone.
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Steeping Bayleaf
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Steeping Bayleaf
@stepheneb
West coaster into cities, economics, climate change, tech, politics, energy, and data. Geriatric millennial. Big nerd vibes. he/him 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🥌
East Vancouver Katılım Ocak 2009
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Pure theft.
Mike Levin@MikeLevin
This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it. Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago. IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued. The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk. The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit. Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million. The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out. This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president. Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues? nytimes.com/2026/05/19/adm…
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@iamkennethchan @DailyHiveVan Of course they could “decide” on the MLB team in July. It’s a political maneouvre to distract from the issues with the Caps and provide a “good news and hopeful” story for ABC to tell. It kinda came out of nowhere and the timing was pretty suspect
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Vancouver City Council could decide on the Major League Baseball expansion team proponent this July, right after the FIFA World Cup.
The City has asked highly extensive and complex details from prospective bidders. #MLB #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
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@KarmSumal @TheChaosWeeber Agreed, love CDMX! It’s so underrated
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@TheChaosWeeber It’s one of the best cities in the world. No other city in canada or US comes close. Mexico City I can see being right up there but we are so used to American culture that we devalue Mexico unfairly.
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How this is in any way controversial blows me away.
NYC isn’t just the best in North America. It’s one of the if not the best skyscraper cities on the whole planet.
Photos by me in 2022
Syntheticus Humanitus@TheChaosWeeber
@Gobari_schumk New York City is the best city in North America
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Season 2 of Beef on Netflix is so much worse than Season 1. Flimsy plot lines and a terrible ending. Season 1 was so good; what happened?! #netflix
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@Lanefab @MikeKlassen I thought that BC did legalize single stair buildings? Vancouver just had to update their code, which they did last year. Is that incorrect?
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@MikeKlassen you want to kill Vancouver’s single stair code update that was just adopted? We’re on the cusp of unlocking a new housing type…
You’re not going to see 25% cost savings, you’ll see a single fam house with no fire sprinklers and 32” doors instead of 34”.
ABC Vancouver@Vote4ABC
Building a house just across the street in Burnaby can cost roughly 25% less than building the same home in Vancouver. At a time when affordability is already crushing families, City Hall shouldn’t be adding more costs and delays. Today, we’re taking action to modernize Vancouver’s building rules and bring them more in line with the Province of BC. • Less red tape • Faster approvals • Lower building costs • More affordable housing Vancouver is the only city in BC with its own standalone building code — creating extra costs, delays, and complexity that ultimately get passed on to you. Our promise is simple: every decision we make should help make life more affordable for Vancouverites. @MikeKlassen #affordability #abcvancouver #vancouver #respectingyourtaxdollars
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@BillKristol @LindaMcQuaig To be fair you had Hollywood to put out your USA USA propaganda so you didn’t need a government sanctioned network or account back then
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I’m old enough to remember when a creepy video like this would be put out by the Chinese government, not ours.
The White House@WhiteHouse
The arrival everyone has waited for. 🇺🇸🇨🇳
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@business @AndrewJWHaynes Carney is happy to take credit for every bit of positive news whether he's had a hand in it or not. He's also passing blame on everything bad to Trump or Harper from more than a decade ago
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The increase in Canadian exports to countries outside the US has been driven by two price-volatile commodities — gold and oil — rather than businesses breaking ground in new markets bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@ChrisWe56184750 @Brad604 @brendonme I get that but I’ve experienced loads of thunderstorms in other coastal (more tropical) locations. What makes the east pacific so calm from a thunderstorm perspective, but is also associated with rough and stormy weather?
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@Brad604 @brendonme Why is it that we only get a good thunderstorm every 2-3 years in SW BC? Why is our atmosphere so “stable” throughout the year?
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@brendonme Mate, you don't understand how shitty our Thunderstorms usually are around here. We get excited about the bottom of the barrel.
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Great news! The Simpsons continue their adventure with a 100% Quebecois dub, brought to life by our local talent 💙🎉
Season 36 arrives this fall on Noovo.
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AMIR: Sorry, Southsiders! The Whitecaps are good as gone
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@Carpaige178176 @SteveSaretsky I imagine there’s a lot of complex system integration and cybersecurity requirements on anything technology related in the government. It would be difficult for a couple of students to develop that on their own
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@stepheneb @SteveSaretsky "one that could get hacked"
I am certain the one from waterloo would more secure than anything the government does.
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@Carpaige178176 @SteveSaretsky Yeah, one that could get hacked. I agree in that it shouldn’t take millions to do, but bulding a new process and new tech (assuming the data isn’t available currently) and hiring staff to sustain it isn’t budgeted and requires both short and long term funding commitments.
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@stepheneb @SteveSaretsky No it doesn't, 3 waterloo interns could cook a program with 2 weeks.
But the government wouldn't accept it because it didn't go through 2 consultant stages and cost 100M.
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@SenRubenGallego @mattyglesias Nah, let them grind out a win without you and prove to the world that they/ Europe don’t need you as you continue to try to undercut them. You’ve also started other wars and conflicts with global consequences that you should really try to see to a conclusion first.
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Ukraine is winning right now. We should arm them, give them the intelligence they need, and let them strike deep into Russia. Instead we're making them beg for it. Democrat or Republican, the next administration has to make the decision: we want Ukraine to win.
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There was a time in my life when I didn’t know who Erika Kirk was and I really took that for granted.
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The first half of May will feel more like early April as a persistent trough lingers around the Great Lakes.
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i’ll bet this hits so hard if you’re stupid
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
🚨 NOW: King Charles has a PRESIDENTIAL-level motorcade rolling through DC right now We now have an ACTUAL king on our soil, but there are NO SIGNS of any "No Kings" protests anywhere in the nation right now. Interesting how that works!
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